Babylon Quote by Alistair Cooke

It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and…

— Alistair Cooke

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

— Alistair Cooke

The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf…

— Alistair Cooke

If computers take over, it will serve us right.

— Alistair Cooke

[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses…

— Alistair Cooke

“Every sport pretends to be literature. . .”

— Alistair Cooke

To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with his radio…

— Alistair Cooke

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in…

— Alistair Cooke

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

— Alistair Cooke

I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought…

— Alistair Cooke

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it

— Alistair Cooke

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

— Alistair Cooke